For the game adaptation of Brave, a new cartoon from Pixar, Disney has contracted the developers of one of the most successful games for iOS – Imangi Studios, the creators of Temple Run. 

Along with the release of the new service, Distimo shared interesting data about the American mobile app market over the past April: Google Play overtook the number of free downloads of the App Store; 37% of the most successful applications on the Android market can be found in the iPhone version. 

This summer, the Russian bank will start issuing its own cards with the heroes of the popular Finnish game Angry Birds. Thanks to this announcement, the number of Angry Birds downloads in Russia also became known. 

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

Developers are losing interest in creating Android apps due to problems with fragmentation and a large number of app stores, Appcelerator reports. 

Yesterday, Google introduced subscription support in its own app store. Glu Mobile immediately took advantage of this. She introduced a subscription to her virtual currency: now for $9.99 per month, players receive twice as many credits as if they paid the same amount at a time.

China is becoming an increasingly important territory for Apple. In the first quarter of 2012 alone, sales of Apple smartphones in the Chinese market tripled. 

Applications developed on HTML5 work up to ten times slower even on the most advanced smartphones than on laptops, according to Spaceport experts in their new study.

The company has released a multiplatform commercial version of its engine with a long history – GameMaker: Studio. The company’s first major client was the popular German publisher HandyGames. 

According to figures published by Microsoft, its mobile platform has not only caught up in popularity, but also left behind Apple’s operating system in the People’s Republic of China. MTS claims that the share of WP in Russia is greater than that of iOS.

Android holds a dominant position in the mobile systems market thanks to Samsung’s good sales; Windows Phone has doubled its share in the American and European markets in a year.  

Staircase3 has found out which smartphone is the most popular among Android devices, on which devices it is best to test your own applications, and also why the fragmentation of the “green” platform is growing from year to year. 

The high level of fragmentation on Android prevents developers from making money on their own applications, says David Roberts, executive director of PopCap Games. 

Just a few days ago it became known that GameDuell, one of the central players in the German mobile software market, and Vostu, Brazil’s largest social gaming company, announced support for GetJar’s new virtual currency – GetJar Gold. Read below about why they decided to support an independent Android app store.    

There was information that the search corporation is developing a single gaming hub that will connect all gamers on the Android platform. There is also an opinion that the new service will be an analogue of the Facebook App Center announced recently.  

The world’s largest social network has announced an extremely unusual service that risks becoming one of the leading app stores in the future. With its help, users will be able to download applications to their own, including mobile devices, and developers will be able to promote their own projects more successfully. 

Newzoo experts shared the results of a new study, during which they found out that micropayments by revenue captured almost the entire mobile games market. Analysts also calculated how many times the revenues of gaming applications from the App Store are more than those from Google Play.

The top ten highest-grossing games on the leading mobile platforms iPhone, iPad and Android.

Analysts are lowering their forecasts regarding the bright future of the Windows Phone mobile platform. So far, however, it is not very significant.